Godschalk 1 Side B

The cassette is a TDK D60. It is the first part of an interview with Jan Anthonie Godschalk (23-5-1944 – 29-1-2015) in Utrecht on 22-2-1993. Jan Godschalk lived as a young boy from 1950 to 1954 as a young boy in Hollandia in Dutch New Guinea where his father was a harbour master and later a circuit judge. He returned in 1978 as a missionary worker for the RBMU International and the Evangelical Church in Indonesia and did research in the among the Mek in the Sela valley. From 1987 to 1989 he worked at the Irian Jaya Study Centre in Jayapura. Het got his promotion on the thesis “Sela Valley.  An ethnography of a Mek society in the Eastern Highlands, Irian Jaya, Indonesia, Geldermalsen, Logoconsult, 1993. He wrote a number of articles together with Benny Giay, Cargoism in Irian Jaya today, Oceania, 1993; Notes and Documents – A.C. de Kock’s encounter with the ‘Goliath pygmies’the first ethnographic data from the Mek culture in the Eastern Highlands of Irian Jaya, The journal of Pacific History, vol. 34, no. 2, 1999 and with Neil Gunson, Manuscript XXVIII: An Early Ethnography of the Geelvink Bay People, West New Guinea, The Journal of Pacific History, vol. 49, n.1, 2014.

The tape is part of the audio collection of the foundation PACE Papua Cultural Inheritance. For more information or any messages or correspondence contact huublems81@gmail.com or srgales@ziggo.nl.

Side A is 31’52 and Side B is 31’46

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